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Remember both PCIe and DisplayPort are carried on a single Thunderbolt cable, the latter occupying half of the 40Gbps of total bandwidth available.Īt the end of a Thunderbolt chain you can insert a miniDP display, currently the only option is the 27-inch LED Cinema Display but in theory other panels that accept a miniDP input could work as well. There's another role that second Thunderbolt port can play: as a DisplayPort output. But you could get by with two and not be limited by Thunderbolt. With a single Pegasus in its default configuration able to hit over 5Gbps, you'd definitely run into bandwidth limitations with six of these things. You can use the second port to daisy chain up to six Pegasus devices together, for up to 36 drives. Just saying.The Pegasus has two Thunderbolt ports.
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Why not the full five years? I can’t say, but most of my drives that have gone bad have lasted more than two years. You’ll need to purchase Seagate’s Rescue service for that, at $10 for one year or $15 for two years. The warranty is limited, and includes only replacement, not data recovery. The SSD folks call this TBW (terabytes written), and Seagate’s promise far outstrips the amount of data likely to be written to the drive.
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The 10TB Barracuda Pro is warrantied for five years at 220TB worth of writes per year, or 1100TB over the warranted lifespan. You can also mimic some of the performance (and increased vulnerability) of the Barracuda Pro by running two drives in RAID 0 (striped) rather than a mirrored RAID 1. The Barracuda Pro’s speed is seductive, but a pair of 2TB drives (rather slow ones) can be had for $100 and a pair of average 4TB drives, around $250. Seagate’s new Barracuda Pro 10TB hard drive.Īll this adds up to a warning not to overbuy, especially if you’re already running an SSD, which you should be if you like fast data transfers. Mirroring has saved my bacon many a time when backup schemes go wrong. Unless, of course, you back up regularly, or are willing to pony up a substantial amount of coin for a pair of the $500 Barracuda Pros to mirror each other. If the drive goes bad, still a very common occurrence, you’re SOL (surely outta luck). But you do need to consider that you’re putting all your eggs in one basket. Not that you wouldn’t take a 10TB drive over a 4TB drive if they were handed out for free. Unless you download a lot of stuff and never dump any of it, 10TB is massive overkill.
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The Barracuda Pro is the equal of two of those, plus a 2TB drive.
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I have a hard time filling up my lone WD 4TB drive and there is a lot of multimedia on there. The ramifications of capacityġ0TB is a lot of data. That’s very low for a hard drive, and far lower than, say, the five 2TB drives you’d need to get the same amount of capacity. The Barracuda Pro also draws a mere (in HDD terms) 6.8 watts when operating. More fodder for speculation.Ĭould it be true? HD Tach is old-school, but it seemed fine with the Barracuda Pro 10TB and indicates that unlike most hard drives, it’s a consistent performer across the entirety of the drive. That’s unusual hard drives tend to write faster on the outside of the platters where sectors whip by at a faster pace than on the inner portions of the disc. We also brought HD Tach out of retirement, and it seemed to say that the Barracuda Pro retains its speed across the entirety of its capacity.